Island Health Seed Grant Award: $5,000.00
These awards provide initial funding to new and developing Island Health researchers. These seed grants are intended to engage health professionals in research, to support the acquisition of research experience, and to increase competitiveness for external funding opportunities.
The purpose of this study is to understand the range of nurses’ experience of either providing care for a patient who has chosen medical assistance in dying (MAiD), or declining to participate in MAiD. Findings will generate knowledge of how nurses are being impacted personally and professionally, their perceptions of nursing roles and responsibilities, and what gaps in knowledge and skills exist related to MAiD. This will address a knowledge gap of how medical assistance in dying is being enacted from nurses’ perspectives. A qualitative design using narrative inquiry (Riessman, 2008) and thematic analysis (Braun & Clark, 2009) will be used. Participants will include approximately 20-30 licensed nurses (RNs, NPs, LPNs, and RPNs) employed in Island Health who have cared for a patient pursuing MAiD at home or in an institutional care setting or nurses who have made a conscious decision to not participate. Data will be collected through audiotaped semi-structured interviews conducted in-person or by telephone to foster accessibility. Findings will add to the literature, provide direction for nurses and managers in this new clinical and legal reality, and support an application for a larger study of MAiD (nurses and interdisciplinary team) across BC Health Authorities.
Principal Investigator
Rosanne Beuthin, RN, PhD
Practice Consultant, End of Life, Island Health
Co-Investigator
Anne Bruce, RN, PhD
Professor
School of Nursing
University of Victoria
Co-Investigator
Margaret Scaia, RN, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
School of Nursing
University of Victoria
(L – R) Drs. Anne Bruce, Rosanne Beuthin & Margaret Scaia
From the 2017 Spring & Summer Communiqué — Research Edition
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